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A ‘Walking Dead’ mobile game is lumbering our way

AMC and Finnish developer Next Games are producing a mobile game based on The Walking Dead, the hit television adaptation of the bestselling comic series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.

The game is scheduled to launch in October to coincide with the Season 5 premiere of the TV series.

“Our take on the undead survival franchise will match the against-all-odds action and moment-to-moment tension of the TV series. We want to find that sweet spot where gameplay and narrative inform and reinforce one another,” Next Games CEO Teemu Huuhtanen said in a statement. “Like AMC’s The Walking Dead itself, we’re not giving away too many details right out the gate, but I can confidently state it’s unlike anything we’ve seen from The Walking Dead franchise on home or mobile gaming hardware before.”

The Walking Dead has already inspired a popular episodic game from Telltale Games.

Next Games is a Helsinki-based startup founded last year by design veterans from Rovio (creators of Angry Birds), Disney and Supercell.